Cord Malaria Infection, Complement Activation, Oxidative Stress, Gestational Age, and Birth Weight, Characterized by High Plasmodium falciparum Prevalence in Bamenda, Cameroon

Table 3

Prevalence of umbilical cord blood malaria and the level of parasitaemia density/µl in Bamenda Regional Hospital, Cameroon.

	Mean ± SD	Frequency	Percent (%)
Prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in the cord
Not infected	—	236	78.66
Infected	3435.5 ± 4366.72	64	21.33
Classification of malaria parasitaemia density/µl of cord
Low	696.88 ± 188.69	18	28.12
Moderate	2448 ± 1214.08	36	56.25
High	11920 ± 5365.90	10	15.62

Low (parasites < 1000/µL); moderate (parasites between 1000–4999 µL); high (parasites > 5000/µL).